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The Brussels Post, 1920-3-11, Page 3King George's Wardrobe. The late King Edward was reputed to be the best•dremtsed monarch in the world, and, natntally, being rr,nttnual. ly in the public eye, he wee often re- sponsible for netting new niaecuIuc fashions. i e,. 9 ea.„It has been said that he was iteees-1 towed to as lthumry ora RIX ohan.;r a a ' Get Acquainted With your Car— way before the clutch is fully en- `bay, not Including those for special ; Article IV. gaged and the pedal released, With fnmctlotxs. You have ]earned e Hate prn4 ties you can start the ear King George. hur.cver, is tinted fur i mss v:'n a illy aniil ou cos un err. in the simplicity of his attire, ana hoe gasoline steed is, how it won t., Y Y tine habit that hi so dear to English - it consumes for fodder and hoar .h:. 1"'',""' r 0 class still. fodder is converted into nmmies pet ' 1.., to the change =speed gears,ImIe of wearing his cloth! for a -cone hour, now it is time that you learned ] ha e " " t lot of ncnvices, not alma aitlerable period, His Majesty has al. to drive, Oh, Yes; T know that the to °ran' tie wars noiselessly, drive ways c e: ttemcin ueat and tidy :rp• salesman or demonstrator showed around the block rather than turn in a 1"'unr ce, and seems to favrr ;:, grey you how to move curtain pedals and narrow •street; don't join that class, lounge suit ter its indoor houre, whiirt I With a little practice you can be a his favorite outdoor1s n:+t.:,r Wi • levers so as to make the tin horse jog nn atllnh•Ql in theeNavy, u na . ,,:•;4 along nncl how to move the levers and real driver, able to change gears the s0 nett. nnoothee pedal to make the critter without alarming the whole neigh- 'yi*o llecal uvardrebe lea very hire,: ' speed up; but that is not driving, One 'borhooci, Too much haste is the C1iie£one. and =Mine incite titan ere b'_- trouble is that a lot of owne,•s never stumbling bloc.. I (reel uniforms for wearing on v:u9uue get any further along than this pre- In shifting into first speed, release occasions. For ie tatace, a visit to kindergarten dope. clutch, hesitate an instant lin neutral, France to inspect a certain regiment You know of course that there ,is a long enough to let the clutches stop of which Ills Majesty Is colonel neees- change speed lever which enables you spinning, and then quickly shift. In nitates n French uniform, while on his to start in low speed and them to go shifting to second speed the ear must return, another eoshtm,' must be forth- lnto second or high speed at will, or he epeeded up a little, the clutch pedal emulate to enahie hint to tete part in into reverse; that there ie. a dutch, fully depne-sect and, hesitating again some 4:113• fuutt on Hard Luck. you know, and that tbere is a pedal et, neeatral for an indent, make the 1Iar'ug each a ec v -id ri 3i]t I, 4, le lettere you este) on the " shift; -n .1(4 :ams v:a3, Fath to : ,,:11 c t cloth i t0 de: t Ain't ur nip, er ,-cant see, 1 p gas. andtl with.. : ::,;, le sittu, undern,•atlt a arae another tvhr. h applies lite brt3-cs 1 d pc r1• be eat;, o}ed to sterethem. that there is stili another lever tell- It ds easy to shift to higher sicced I The Reed w^rdroira propel. d- -.g :%.1i.' growhu' that your .ick is bad, «1 the emergency brake lever, far use usually. In spite of this ease, how-! Buveingiutht Palace, end one %ags An' that your life is extra tad; when the car ,is standing or if the ever, many create all sorts of grinds room is devoted entirely to urinate:, of Tour life ain't Fodder then your ucigh. other brake goes wrong, also for al- anti crashes within the gear ease. All weitring apparel, which is eel eanly hors, terliating with the latter on long such shotrdd take a half hour on a attended to by a staff of spe,_.ially- Nor auy harder are s yo=u labors; hills. But do you know enough not tr, to et street to try out shifting, prac- • chosen valets. each one of whom has An' rains has him the same as you, step on the gas ever time some© fel-' Using; over • and over until it is noise- his own be eweek an'hhates to cross, y particular work to perform, An' be gets tired he gets cro low wants to pass you or you get in "'less. Probably most of the practice such as boleti Mg tum( 1)ressln,,. An' he has troublei' n tight place an.d thin, you e'a1, take will be needed in shifting to lower The eat* of this room aro ttdvided Yvlife the ugh a chance- with a dash? speeds. The You tahe his whole life through and prose s is exactly the into secti'etata, and each srr•ti0n is de- timm•ongh, But since you know all about the, reverse of the process of the pm•eced- voted i0 the uniforrns of a 'different Wily, he's no better o1 than yon, uses of these levers, which are modi-,'ing paragraph, The car meet be cr"mtntry, she section in -its turn being Pied .in the vaso of the Ford, which. clewed down and the clut:h released divided into shelves and drawers, each has pedals for the speed changes, it, slightly. Then withont hesitation! devoted either to the Army or Navy, will be unnecessary to tell you how. make a rapid shift. This does not or, perhaps, the particular regiment in to use them, and it will be possible mean that you are to hurry the pro- 'Which Itis Majesty holds honorary to tell you what not to do, First of cess, but that when you start to shift rank. all as to the clutch. If you bit your' you do it with celerity and confidence. nag a sharp cut with the whip she' Remember that practice makes per - jumps forward and almost sends you. feet. 'Shifting to reverse must always over the back of the seat; so with the! be done when the ear is standing gasoline nag; letting in the clutch) still. too sharply is like the whip swish, or Turning gives many troubles, par - when the motorman starts the ear titularly if the street be narrow. One with a jerk., the car jumps off, per- may easily tell the old horse driver haps dragging the tires, certainly at such a time. He will when curving racking engine and car, besides yank- across the roadway quirky reverse ring the daylights almost out of you. tate wheel just before corning to a Nine -tenths of the notion of the clutch pedal may be made very quick- ly and the last tenth, or from jest before the clutch begins to engage until it is fully engaged, must be made slowly, so that the car 38 under CROSBY'S KIDS Almost every country in the world has its special sectors, and the system is so carefully arranged that immedi- ately the head valet receives news of the King's proposed visit to a foreign country, or to any special function, he can Immediately place his hand on the desired uniform. Thus, in the section devoted to Spahr, there is a special division in the shape of a .drawer devoted to stop, so that it is almost set for the every regiment whose uniform His reverse curve. If you do not know Majesty has a right to wear. just what this means, watch an old driver do it and you will at once grasp the move. Practice it until turning is easy. Women Forging Ahead ' Wolsey is one of the women members in London, of the ancient Gardners Company. The modern woman is r '_!ng her . Women have always been entitled way into the close corporati.,ae known to the freedom of the Cdothworkers as the City Companies, sty, ; a London Company, and the sante right le ac - despatch. A few days ago a woman corded by the Ski•••lers (or furriers) proved her right to admission into the Company, but the right goes by pater - Spectacle Makers Company, one of nity, and can only be claimed by those the few City Companies that require daughters who were born after their their members to have passed an fathers were admitted. In some Cam - examination panies where the right of admission Some of the tweee great companies by paternity exists the claim is no longer recognized. and the sixty-three- humor companies were founded by men and women in- Curiously enough, no woman is as terested in the industries they repre• yet a member of the Aputheearies So - sent and some received their charac- ciety, though a good many women doc- tors from queens, but nowadays it is tors are licentiates of the society, and the exception for them to admit wo- every licentiate has a right to mem- men to membership, The Company of bership. One would think they would Turners, whose craft dates, back to olaini the right, which carried with it Roman times, has enrolled one w0 - the freedom of the City of London, tint work in munition factories. Lady man, a master turner who did impor- but the queston of their admission has I never yet been raised. The Cannibal Islanders When Captain Cook, the fatuous fended their country in a. long series navigator, landed at Poverty Bay, of wars against the white invaders. New Zealand, in October, 1700, the ma- At one time the British had. 10,000 sol- -lives took his ship for a gigantic bird deers in New Zealand. and were struck with the size and The origin of the Maoris y - tain, but they are presumably off MikIa- beauty of its wings. He spent nearly lay stock. They have a tradition that a year cruising around the islands and the islands were first settled by an - cultivating friendly relations with the cestors of theirs who came from a inhabitants• distant land in fourteen canoes, Most They appeared to be amiable and Cherished of their ancient weapons exceptionally intelligent; yet infanta- are war -clubs made of a translucent tide was commonly practiced, and and very beautiful green stone, A cannibalism was an established habit. British sea captain once asked a chief The Maoris thought nothing of teak- what he would take in exchange for ing an armed descent upon a distant his club, and the• reply was, "Your island, rouuding up its people, and ac- ship." oomplishing a thorougb cleanup by The chief explained that the life - eating them all 1n leisurely fashion. time of one man was required to make Captain Cook estimated their num- such a warclub. Very likely, this was ber at 400,000. To -day there are not true. For when an attempt was made more than 40,000 lett alive. Like other to turn out clubs of like. pattern from native races all over Oceania, the the sante material with the help of Maoris are dying out. They earned machinery the result was failure, ow - the admiration of Europeans by the ihhg to the etrtreme hardness of the skill and bravery with which they de- stone, ii I 5EE YOU ATE' SOME' OF THE PUDDINq-. MOTHERSENTOVER• THAT WHAT IT NietetZa In addition to those official ward- robes, there are, of course, His Ma- jesty's private clothes, which are pre- sided over by a specially -appointed valet. This section is again divided into clothes of different thicknesses and styles, suitable for the various seasons, whilst another partition is reserved entirely for dress suits and evening clothes. Each garment is, marked distinctly, so that the valet will be able to re- place it in the proper place. There is a considerable amount of work to be done in keeping these suits in order, for each garment must be brushed and pressed regularly once a week, and the same care is shown towards the uniforms which are sel- doxml used, as towards the things most likely to be needed. Of course, His Majesty's collection of foreign uniforms must be kept up- to-date, and directly the head valet is informed of any slight alteration made in a particular uniform; the old one must be cast aside, and a neer one made. As only the highest skilled labor is employed, a perfect fit is assured, and the King isnot subjected to attentions of the tailors, nor does he have to be fitted with all the various additions to his wardrobe. Whence Comes the Tur- pentine. Most people know that turpentine is a product of the pine tree, but are not acquainted with the means by which it is obtained. Beneath the bark of the tree are resin -secreting cells, whose output is meant by nature for healing wounds.. If the skin of the tree be wounded severely, many more of these cells, much larger in size, develop, and pour out great quantities of resin, •Bence, to procure the resin, the bark Is well scarped with cuts (pre- ferably made in a series of parralel V's), and a receptacle is placed be- neah to catch the fluid as it exudes. The fluid is then distilled, and the volatile part of it, which passes over, is turpentine. The residue is what we call 'rosin," and Is used for many Pur- poses, one of its employments being in the manufacture of expioseves, If whinln' brushed tbe clouds away, I wouldn't have a word to say; If it made good friends out o' foes, I'd whine a bit, too, I suppose; But when I look around an' see A lot of men resemnblin' me, An' see 'em sad, and see 'em gay, With work to do most every day, Some full 0' fun, some bent with care, Some havin' troubles hard to bear, I reckon, as I count my woes, They're 'bout what everybody knows. The day I find a man who'll say He's never known a rainy day, Who'll raise his hat right up an' swear In forty years he's had no care, Has never had a single blow, An' never known one touch o' woe, Has never seen a loved one die, Has never wept or heaved a sigh, Has never had a plan go wrong, But always laughed his way along; Then I'll sit down an' start to whine That all the hard luck here is mine, --w — Alaska and the Musk Oxen. The treeless coastal plains of north- ern Alaska, from the international boundary to Point Barrow and even as far south as the Seaward Peninsula, were at one time the home of the musk me The animal seems to have been exterminated in those regions -fifty or more years ago. An effort is now to be made to re- establish this interesting little species of the genus Doe in the territory, the plan being to import from Coronation Gulf or Melville Island a sufficient number of specimens to form a herd. This accomplished, they can be bred for the benefit of natives and white settlers. The present governor of Alaska in- dorses the scheme, and suggests that a ship be sent to Melville Island in sum- mer, to winter there, and to return the following summer with a bunch of musk oxen, He believes that by this means • an industry of great future value could be created. Musk oxen are easily domesticated. Their meat is hardly distinguishable from beef and their milk (about half the quantity yielded by an ordinary cow) is very rich. The shaggy hair of the outer coat covers a soft, long- flbered wool, equal if not superior to the finest sheep wool. Large bulls weigh front 000 to 700 pounds, Musk oxen have not the roving in- stinct of cattle, and cannot be easily stampeded. When attacked by wolves (the principal enemy of game animals in the north), the adult members of the herd foram a circle around the young, presenting an impregnable front,. It is claimed that the musk ox com- bines all of time qualities most to be desired by a pioneer population in a desolate region. The wild wastes of northern Alaska, utilized as grazing ground for this picturesque beast, would thereby acquire important value, yielding great quantities of meat and wool. Pippbbn 't?htjmos y WWIt Mason Spring Corning, OON the tarmere will be farming, plowing up the bosky delis, skies will soon be blue and charming, and the breezes weaning bells. Every day Js bringing nearer Spring, the season we admire; and this preelou.5 thurrgltt grows clearer as I fend the furnace Are. When I'un ebrtking clown the ashes, when I'm heaving fn the cont, this refleetinn goes a -flashing through the fibre of my soul; and I wave the rusty poker and I slam the furnace door, for I will not need to stoke ber, in the spring time, anynmore. Oh, time winter winds are chilling, and they jolt us when they strike, but the springtime's calmly drilling some- where up the dusty pike; and she's bringing birds and roses and a swarm of bumble bees; we forget our frosted noses wben we think such thoughts as these. Spring is coming, gentle reader, with that luscious smile of hers, and the farmer with his seeder will be sowing cockleburs, and we'll get up picnic parties in the sylvan dells and glades, where the happy village smarties will escort the giggling maids; and we'll be knee deep in clover, and forget our every sore, for the wetter wi'i be (14- a and the spring will have the floor, awouteer PRINCE OF WALES AS A RAN'CHE ; ALBERTA HOME HAS GOOD SITUATION. ,All About the "Homo in the) West" Acquired by His Royal Highness. Were the Prince of Wales to scou'it the foothills of the Rtoekiee from{ Mexico to the Arctto Circle, he Wank!, have difficulty in finding a ranch more' delectably situated than the Beding. Feld property which be purchased on; his recent tour front Mrs, I3edimgfeld,' senior, and her son Pranit. Lying adjacent to time famous Bar -11 Ranch, owners by Mrs George Lane, who entertained the Prince last Sep- tember, and who negotiated the trans- action by which the Prince became an /Alberta farmer and rancher, the Bed' ingfeld Ranch abuts the snow -Dapped mountains to the west, the rolling foothills to north and south, and the . --- —...o. _ • _ gentle slope to the prairies to the east, Cutting its winding way through the Wise Men Say Laugh and Live Long, heart of the estate is the Middle Fork That actions speak louder than Doctors tell us that loom is bad I` of the Ti stream River, a crystal clear some people talk, iter the bealth. We all have to die i mountain stream cu which lurk t, 08* That If a man is obliging l e s ,:,1,1 sontel inure, but unless we are continual- I less numbers o i cutthroat torus, eco to be popular, because be can be im- ly dreaming of heaven and longing to 1 of the gamest eshh go the world. To 1 the wast, in the higher foothills and posedT11nt upon. enter 11, it Is better to be optimistic, 1 the Rocky Mountains proper, are found the unfortunate thine: about E pedally is this the case at nlagal-I deer, bear, partridge the bi good resolutions is that they are often times. If we are not happy, we are 1 grouse, and other game mountain made t00 late. not likely to be hungry, Good diger- game, white, on the That he is not worthy of the ltot.ey- tion, it has been said, waste 0n appe- comb who shuns the hive because the tate. Therefore, 1f we are wise, we bees hare stings. shall take every precaution to render That often the things that vex us ourselves as happy as we can. most in others are the very faults in A good rule is never to indulge in which ithey resemble ourselves. any kind of discussion et mealtimes. Founded by a Wonsan. That politeness is like an air cus- Political and religious problems are hion. There may be nothing In it, particularly to be avoided. These Its previous owner. Mrs. BedJugi'0i1l!,, but it eases the jolts wonderfully, topics have always set people by the alto retires from active ranching and That it is so easy to find fault that ears, and always will. Agreement on farming operations after more thee self-respecting persons ought to be such themes is mainly a matter of thirty years asnmanager of her 0 ashamed to waste their energies in temperament. People of different properties, regraded a 015 s one of . that way. temperaments will approach them most eoinpetent agriculturists a •q 5)5 That the men with pasta and the from different angles,. livestock breeders in Alberta, men with futures have their ad- People sometimes say they are glad She came- to the frvvinee in the Dan mdrers. But the men with presents they did not live In the Middle Ages. ly eighties, and was lila Drat white aro the real winners. They feel afraid lest they should have woman t0 settle 5n what Is now the been burnt as heretics or massacred giving town of high River, Pram as martyrs. They forget that the the first she shelved an aptitude few Roads .That Lead Nowhere. Middle Ages produced the noblest of ranching, and her son Prank, as ire "Since life le a journey and we pass all callings.—that of the jester, grew up, showed a like ability, Ss. chis way for once, we should be sure It was the jester's duty to put at !wean them they not only acquirers of the road we travel," said a recent their ease all who gathered round the large holdings of valuable- land, /ani speaker. "So many roads. lead no- board. By hie sudden sallies of wit also they built up a herd of parte*.where at all. There is nothing at the and mirth he banished dullness, and lady well-bred Clydesdale horseir, end of the road whose ways leave a made heated controversy impossible. which at the time of the Prince's par - burned -out soul; nothing at the end, Unlike the doctors, he never killed chase, numbered between 400 and tett of a mad struggle for money save anyone. In addition to these splendid horses, poverty of spirit; nothing at the end Gone, alas-, are the Touchstones of which have come to be regarded as :n of the road of pride save loneliness; other days! Theirs was a noble task, improvement on the original trpe,tYs nothing at the end of aelfiehness but nobly fulfilled. But if we cannot en- Bedingfeld ranch carried eeverai hes- die/illusion se i.disillusion and regret. gage a jester to snake us marry, we- droll high-class range cattle. "The ways of love and service, of can at least banish frowns and IInw oaten the Prince of 1Va;ee will friendship and goodness never m1s- grumbles at table, visit his ranch, he frankly` epufesaed lead ue; they bring us to the hilltops Harsh words amid ill -feeling may be before itis departure from the vVest be of vision and to the valley of peace; as deadly almost as germs. Silence, if did not know. they lead us beside the still waters it be the silence of friendship, is a He dict say. that I10 evraudrt ,.cine ss and the light of hope falls across their blessing. But gloom and rancour will often as he could ants day as long as farther distances:" spoil the beat digestions, he was allowed to, ilea it le amid- house that. so soon as the new rencb- house is completed, which will be dvr- fug the summer of 1330, two of his brothers will rime out for a holiday trip, enol far a tiv:'C of real r:anebieg life. ranch itself, partridge and prairie chicken fioerlsh. In every di1•ec_ti,n from the min - house stretch inviting glades, carpeted in summer with lexeriant grass and brilliant /towers. Triumph of the Duane Wordsworth, one of the greatest of his dominie. Another fatuous preacher, Isaac Barrow, was so slow and quarrelsome that he tvas counted a disgrace to the school. Dr. Butler, the headmaster at Shrewsbury School, had often to call Charles Darwin (the most famous naturalist of the nineteenth century) to task for inattention and laziness during his studies. The only thing that seemed to interest him was the collecting of caterpillars, worms, and all sorts of creeping things, and the risking of his own and hie brother's life by dangerous chemical experi- ments. Napoleon was spoken of at school as the "dull scholar," and Wellington's schoolmaster said that he was only fit to be food for powder. Lord Robert Clive was sent out to India as a clerk because everyone at home was tired of his bad temper and his hopeless dullness. During the dip- lomatic difficulties which rose between England and France he attracted the attention of his superior's by some able suggestions for the curbing of the French influence, In the war that fol- lowed he was given a command and displayed euab, remarkable military genius that he virtually' became Com- mander-in•Chtef. In the troubles that followed with the native chiefs, he was equally resourseinl, and succeed- ed in laying the folludaton of the Bri- tish Empire in India on a secure basis. poets of the last century, was an ex- tremely dull scholar, and by his own experience went a long way towards disproving one of his most famous lines, "The child is father of he man." Thomas Chatterton, the wonderful boy -poet, returned from school one day with the message, "lour son is a fool of whom nothing can be made." Robert Burns, Scotland's greatest poet, was a dunce at school, yet in his career he poured forth song after song of emotional tenderness which made him immortal. Goldsmith, tbe celebrated author of the "Vicar of Wakefield,' "The De- serted Village," She Stoops to Con- quer," was. an awful dunce at school. He found his way to London in 1750, subsequently devoting himself entirely to literature, Dean Swift failed at his examination in Dublin 'University. He became secretary to Sir William Temple and looked for political pre• ferment which, however, dad not conte. Entering the Church, he was made Dean of St. Patrick in 1.713. Getting entangled in political controversy, he lost favor with the popular party, but consoled himself with a devotion to literature, which he greatly enriched by some powerful satires, poems., and discourses. Thomas Chambers, the noted mis- sionary and preacher, was, the despair BRINGING UP FATHER I'M GLAD YOU DIDN'T EAT IT-ALL" 10ING OVER TO SEE HER -18 -THERE ANY WORD you WOULD L1 KL To SENDS Situ 1 • Making Hit Piens Mame. The Peine hes w may Dee.; to con- fine his raetth ng to 1oeg-,listant a r.nlsa, vision, but in Huy event Ile alai toiled thoroughbred horses. thoroughbred Shorthorn cattleand tier mghbred Shropshire cheep for shipment to lis Alberta estate. The lint of his Beg- lish livestock to be sent out here have already been selected by Professor L. Carlyle, who is employed by ten George Lane as his expert on animal husbandry, and who has Pone to Eng- land with a shipineategthe second, by the way—of lir. Lane's famous Per - aileron breed of horses, The Prince had his plans made be- fore he bought time Bedingfe],1 ranch, and on securing the property his drat step was to give instructions for the sale of the Clydesdales and cattle that went with the deal. Ho p1011Osee .toe devote his livestock energies entirely to thoroughbred )horses, Sh,rthoru cattle, and Shropshire sheep, His stock will be built up for the English market, and if the experience in other Classes may serve as a eri- tewaon—Mr, George Lane's Percheroeu, for example—the quality and sub. stance of the original stock will be surpassed, The Prince actually saw what hadbeen accomplished with Percherons when .he visited the Bat -11 Ranch, and was impressed by the poe- sibilities or this class of horso-breed.. ing. Plans are being prepared for art apple ranch -house on the estate that will contain all the modern convent, ences, and it is to be situated at demo distends from the regular ranch strue• tures, Mr. Lane will bave charge oft' the establishment et this home for the- Prince, The foreman of the Prince's ranelt 'will be lair. b'. R, Pike- who has (e0n pied a like position with ]kir, fieot'ge mane for year& lldr. Pike hat 21as4' taken ohargo of the property, The first typewriter was lnventeJ in 1870. Oleopara's Needle, the raison obeisk on the Thames Embankment, London, As one solid piece ofatone, 90 feet high, and 188 tend in weight. Liverpool's new cathedra)*.When finished, will be the largest in tang• land, with seating accommodationfor fully 8,000 people; it was commented in 1004,